community development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1997
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New Releases

in the world of digital communications will lie not in knowing how to engineer big technological breakthroughs but in how to develop products and services by creatively combining new and existing... View Details

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

problem,” says Amadio. “Although capital is important, fewer than half of the entrepreneurs said that the major barrier was money. The majority of the problems they were facing involved other types of access: to mentorship with deep sector experience, to partners, to... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

10 Oct 2014
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Chicago Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

School. Tonight is about sharing this vision. How does HBS maintain our leadership role in business education and continue to train and develop the kinds of leaders the world needs? And how can we play a role?” The Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign

01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution

“This is where the action is, in the zeroes and the ones.” While the kids lean forward to catch his next act, Enriquez projects on a screen an image filled with 1s and 0s. “This is digital code, the most powerful language in the world,” he tells the class. “It allows... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Dec 2018
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An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

and the HBS Club of New York, the event offered faculty and alumni perspectives on the role of the investment community in addressing climate change. Professor Joseph Lassiter served as moderator of the four-person panel, which included... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Daniel Bricklin [MBA '79] in an HBS classroom), to the extraterrestrial commerce of Orbital Sciences, to the development commitment of African Communications Group, HBS entrepreneurs, be they low-profile or... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Aug 2002
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Class Day & Commencement

security. Times have changed, and I know I certainly have.” After concluding his remarks, Brown introduced guest speaker John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47), who is currently chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, charged... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

such as San Antonio and Chicago to help develop for-profit community organizations. Two years later Lazarus became president of the Washington Council for Equal Business Opportunity. Eventually he left that... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance

wanted to take in their careers. “It was intensive career development at a level I had never experienced before: subtle, deliberate, and incredibly thought provoking,” Gower says. The day he returned home and gave his notice at Cobham,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

someday be a patron of the arts, even though I didn’t know what that meant at the time.” Following Dartmouth, Joyner entered HBS, where she developed a vast network of relationships within her cohort and beyond, finding “a holistic,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

and educational programs in social enterprise with the partnership of AVINA, a foundation that supports sustainable development in the area; the HBS Latin America Research Center (LARC); and six cooperating universities throughout the... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off

actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and refrigeration... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech

uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry, points to two key elements common to successful biotech firms: development capabilities and strong senior management. "Once you attract bright,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

opportunity to consider how the social enterprise community might respond. “Rosie Allen-Herring, from the United Way, gave us the social enterprise perspective,” says Bazaz. “She said that in DC particularly, many donors to organizations... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2000
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The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits

scripts, and others working on sets. Even the spouses of the cast and crew helped. This is one event on campus that draws the entire HBS community together. It's easy to get hooked." Marino drew many comparisons between the show's... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

Executive Development Program (EDP), a special executive training course for the Bank's upper-level managers. "I felt that the World Bank's top people should have an intensive exposure to the latest ideas and techniques in the management... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2013
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Bringing It Back Home

others—all say the participants inspire them. That inspiration ranges from sharing the passion of people dedicated to improving their communities to learning real-world problems that help with their research and case writing. Each summer... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success

Institute founded in honor of the iconic Chicago industrialist, which supports entrepreneurial projects that give back to the community or world. “I realized that project was me,” Skeete Tatum recalls. “There are millions of women who are... View Details